Awning.



A. G. SHENIGKA.

AWNING.

AIPLIOATIOH FILED JAN. 13, 1911.

Patented Sept. 5, 1911.

INVENTOR,

WITNESSES 147M511, G JHE/v/c'm Q I HTTY- AMEL G. SI-IENICKA, OFPET-ALUMA, CALIFORNIA.

AWNING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 13, 1911.

Patented Sept. 5, 1911. Serial No. 602,495.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, AMEL G. SHENIOKA, a citizen of the United States,residing at Petaluma, in the county of Sonoma and State of California,have invented a new and useful Awning, of which the following is aspecification in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilledin the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to an awning, and its object is to provide meanswhereby a wide awning may be extended over a side walk with a very shortspace for head room.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that where an awningis made very flat that there is a corresponding difficulty in raisingthe outrigger which holds it extended. This has resulted in severalforms of apparatus to raise the outrigger when the awning is very flat.In the present instance the outrigger is raised by means of a cable, asthe awning is lowered, the cable and awning being each wound upon a drumcarrying the same, reversely, whereby as the awning unwinds theoutrigger and lifting cable winds up.

In the drawings in which the same numeral of reference is applied to thesame portion throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a side elevationof an awning having this invention applied thereto showing the wall insection; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the roller driving mechanismshowing the apparatus connected to two awnings; Fig. 3 is a .sideelevation of the crank used to wind up and unwind the awning and Fig. 4is a side elevation of one of the slides used to carry the outrigger.

The numeral 1 represents the building wall in which is a niche 2 inwhich the awning roller 3 and cable roller 4 are installed. Theserollers 3 and 4 are held in place by means of suitable brackets 5 whichare secured to the wall of the building. At the end of each roller thereis a bevel gear 7 on the awning roller and a bevel gear 8 on the cableroller. At the ends of the rollers carrying the gears there are brackets9 having cross pieces 10 and 11 for supporting the driving shaft 12. Thedriving shaft 12 has a gear 13 in mesh with the gear'7 and a gear 14 inmesh with the gear 8, the latter gear driving the cable drum at a slowerrate than the awning drum is driven. The lower end of the shaft 12 has alink 15 thereto, said link having universal joints 16 at each end inorder to operate around a corner as illustrated in Fig. 1. Connectedwith the link 15 is a shaft 17 of such length as may be necessary toreach the driving box 18. The driving box 18 is of a common form and hasa square opening 19 in a gear contained .therein in which the square end20 of the crank 21 may be inserted to raise and lower the awning.

The canvas 22 is wound upon a drum 3 and is connected at its upper endto a part 23 in turn fastened to the outer end of the outrigger 24. Theinner end of the outrigger is connected with a slide 25 having suitableantifriction rollers 26 which bear upon a rod 27, the latter beingsecured to the building to hold the inner end of the outrigger in place.Between the ends of the outrigger it is provided with a clamp 28 towhich one end of the cable 29 is secured. The cable 29 passes over thedrum carrying the same in the reverse direction from which the awningcanvas 22 passes over its drum, so that when the shaft 12 is rotated thecable travels in the reverse direction from the awning canvas.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that should two rollersets be operated from the same driving rod 17, it is necessary to soroll the canvas and cable on one set reversely from the other set inorder that both awnings will run down at the same time.

The operation of the awning is as follows :When the crank shaft 21 isoperated to raise the canvas 22 and wind the same upon the rollercarrying it, the cable 29 is unwound from its roller, there being onecable for each outrigger 24 of which there are usually a number. As thecable 29 unwinds the slide 25 moves down the rod 27 until it eitherreaches the bottom thereof or until the canvas 22 is entirely wound up.When the awning is extended the reverse operation takes place, theawning canvas is unwound and the outrigger is lifted so that it clearsthe heads of the passersby.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:-

1. In an awning, a sheet, a roller upon which said sheet is wound, anoutrigger to which said sheet is secured, a slide connected with theinner end of said outrigger, a cable connected to said outrigger andadapted to raise the same at the inner end thereof, a drum adjacent thesheet, a drum upon which said cable is wound, and means to unwind thesheet as the cable is Wound up, substantially as described,

2. In an awning, a sheet, a roller upon which said sheet is adapted tobe wound, an outrigger connected with said sheet at one edge thereof, aslide connected to the inner end of said outrigger, a slide bar uponwhich said slide moves, a cable connected with said outrigger near itsinner end, a

drum for said cable adjacent the sheet drum, and means to unwind thesheet as the cable is wound up, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of Dec.A. D. 1910, in the presence of the two subscribed witnesses.

AMEL G. SHENICKA.

Witnesses:

C. P. GRIFFIN, L. H. ANDERSON.

Copiesof this patent may be, obtained for five cents each, by addressinth commissioner f r Washington, D. C.

